Mr. W. I., distant t»/i Coicidie. 21 



Metitisa smuroyditui. 



Mentiaa smaraydina, Wiilk. he, cit. n. 1. 



Walker's typo aiul unifjue sj)ecini(Mi in the Britisli .Museum 

 is strongly cardeil, and thu.s allorded no opportunity for 

 examination of the ventral se^^nients. This, in conjunetion 

 with its distinct coloration, made me strongly doubt it be- 

 longing to the CydnintB at all; but Dr. Hergroth now informs 

 nie that he has received the species from Central Brazil 

 and that the arrangement and number of ventral segments 

 prove it to belong to that subfamily. I tliereforo gladly 

 locate it in that |)osition on his authority. Walker described 

 the antennai as tbiir-jninted, but his specimen is mutilated in 

 that respect, and Dr. Bergroth informs me that in normal 

 specimens the number of the antennai joints is five. 



Pent A to xrixjs. 



CkoLLIUS, gen. nov. 



Body very much depressed, subovato. Antennte four- 

 jointed ; basal joint shortest and stoutest, slightly passing 

 the apex of the head, second joint longest ; head about as 

 long as broad between the inner margins of eyes, the lateral 

 lobes sublaminate and reflexed, longer than the central lobe 

 and meeting beyi)nd it, their apices rounded but separated ; 

 antenniterous tuliercles outwardly and prominently spine I. 

 Pronotum with the anterior and posterior margins concavely 

 sinuate, the lateral margins slightly reflexed and sinuate, the 

 anterior angles with a small tubercle or spine, the posterior 

 angles sligiitly notched or angulated. Scutellum broad, 

 about as long as the corium, its lateral margins sinuate, its 

 apex angularly rounded. Membrane short, reaching the apex 

 of the abdomen, longitudinally veined. Rostrum about 

 reaching the anterior coxai, fourth joint almost equal in length 

 to that of third joint. Frosternum strongly sulcated ; mcso- 

 sternum with a slight central rivlge. 



I have placed this genus near /Va/'^ycori's, Guer., with wliieh 

 it has many atrinities. 



CrolUus conspersus. 



r<j(h>p8 fo««/w*M.«, Walk Cat. Ilet. i. p. 71. u. (1S()7) 



Hob. Natal {(jucinziiiSj Brit. Mus.) ; British East Africa 

 (C. S. Bctton, Brit. Mus.). 



